10 Ways To Get Quiet Time For Focus
You need quiet time to be able to focus, plan, think, and reboot. Yet it's often at a premium. I have to have quiet time in my life. I am an introvert, and quiet time recharges me so that I can be around people. Take away my quiet time too long and the results are not pretty. I snarl when my reserves are too low. So I have compiled my methods to get the quiet time I need to recharge, plan, focus, think, work and reboot. Here is my list of 10 Ways To Get Quiet Time For Focus.
Find Time To Think: Life Reboot Expanded
One of the crucial factors in rebooting your life is the time to consider what is going on in your life and what has to change. This quiet time is critical, but it can be hard to find. A reader asked a question on how to do it.
Closing Things Down: Life Reboot Expanded
So you're ready to reboot your life, and you know you need to put some things on temporary hold. How do you decide? A reader asked the question.
Get Back On Track By Rebooting My Life
Sometimes the best thing you can do to get a computer back on track is to reboot it. The same concept to get back on track can apply to life. Here's how. A few weeks ago I was feeling overwhelmed. It wasn't a new thing, but rather something that had been going on for months. I felt like I was juggling everything, things were dropping, and I didn't have time to deal with a crisis that came up. I was getting exhausted and resentful.
Consolidate To Combat Information Overwhelm
One of my readers asked me to address the question of what to do when you have information in too many places. She said she had notebooks everywhere, plus all her email accounts, plus sticky notes scribbled on and stuck all over her house and office. She said she lost things constantly, missed appointments, and misplaced valuable notes and information. I can empathize. As I write this I have two planners on my desk (work and personal), two notebooks, a pile of paper, and three email accounts open. There are a series of sticky notes stuck to the edge of my monitor, and I have my personal calendar open in my planner and on my screen, trying to reconcile the information. (How do I have two dentist appointments next week?) Everyone has a lot of information. It's probably not a matter of getting rid of it, but…
Fix Short Attention Spans
How long can you pay attention? I mean really pay attention? Do you skim? Or do you read? Have you gotten distracted while reading this? I have noticed that my ability to pay attention has shrunk over the past few years. I seem to be constantly distracted. I check my phone an embarrassingly large number of times per day. I have to constantly pull my attention back to what I was doing. Even writing this paragraph I have had to pull my attention back three times. Is this something we need to accept? Or can something be done?
Supercharge Your Productivity With Intention
You have some time to get some work done, and then end up doing something else. Or you set out to do something, and it turns out not to be the best use of that block of time. Can this be prevented? Yes. By setting your intention.
How To Combat Internal Interruptions
Have you ever had a day when you just couldn't concentrate? You might want to get down to a task, and even start it, just to be pulled off by thoughts and reminders your own brain is throwing at you. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I have had random thoughts intrude. I've been teaching a class and my mind will remind me that we need dishwasher soap. Or I'll be driving doing errands and my mind will remind me that I need to sew a button back on a sweater at home. It's distracting in the first place. Even worse is when I don't acknowledge the thought, and then it keeps popping back up.
